Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.

You can't talk about truth without talking about learning how to die because it's precisely by learning how to die, examining yourself and transforming your old self into a better self, that you actually live more intensely and critically and abundantly.

We look at the legacy of Frederick Douglass and Ida B. Wells and Ella Baker, Malcolm X and Martin King. We have, and part of the struggle now in the age of [Barack] Obama is how do we keep alive the legacy of Martin King?

It takes tremendous discipline, takes tremendous courage, to think for yourself, to examine yourself.

Anytime I look at a president, I don't care what color he is.

To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can give you and no empire can take away.

Affirmative action is something that I think is very crucial and necessary.